184) Rob Avis: Building community-based self-sufficiency and resilience through permaculture design
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Rob Avis, along with his wife Michelle, are the owners and lead instructors at Verge Permaculture, an internationally recognized and award-winning permaculture design company from Calgary, Alberta. They have taught permaculture to thousands of students, offering expertise in building science and appropriate technology as well as rainwater harvesting, agro-ecology, ecosystem engineering, soil regeneration, and wastewater treatment.
Rob and Michelle Avis also founded Adaptive Habitat, a unique and leading-edge property design and management company that leverages the couple's collective experience in engineering, project management, ecological design, and sustainable technologies.
In this podcast episode, Rob sheds light on the importance of learning about bioregionality so that we can better support the regeneration of our local ecosystems and divorce our globalized food system from its reliance on fossil fuels; why we need to rebuild community-based self-sufficiency for sustainability and not have to depend on a centralized food system, power system, water supply, and so forth; and more.
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| 1:17.3 | That's the ironic thing. We actually don't need any more resources. We just need to reallocate what |
| 1:22.2 | we currently have into things that actually fulfill our needs as humans while enhancing the habitat and spaces around |
| 1:29.4 | us for the ecosystems that we so desperately depend on. |
| 1:35.3 | That was Rob Avis, who, along with his wife, Michelle, is the owner and lead instructor at |
| 1:40.6 | Verge Permaculture, an internationally recognized and award-winning permaculture design |
| 1:45.7 | company from Calgary, Alberta. Stay tuned as we're about to explore the importance of learning |
| 1:51.1 | about bioregionality so that we can better support the regeneration of our local ecosystems |
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